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title: Automated phone calls, or robocalls, use recorded or AI voices; some… — Cars, doctors, scientists and translators · tree and pragmatics
description: Automated phone calls, or robocalls, use recorded or AI voices; some are surveys and some are scams. Who acts: Automated phone calls, some. A sentence of the lesson «Cars, doctors, scientists and translators» of the ai course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Cars, doctors, scientists and translators, sentence 10

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Automated phone calls, or robocalls, use recorded or AI voices; some are surveys and some are scams.

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**Who acts:** Automated phone calls, some · **What happens:** use, record, be · **To what, where:** recorded voices, surveys, scams

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cars, doctors, scientists and translators» of the ai course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Automated phone calls, some), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:ai:018-cars-doctors-translators.lesson:10
# text = Automated phone calls, or robocalls, use recorded or AI voices; some are surveys and some are scams.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = ai
# lesson = 018-cars-doctors-translators.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4
1	Automated	automated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	calls	call	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	robocalls	robocall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	AI	ai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
12	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=8:punct
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	surveys	survey	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	scams	scam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | Automated phone calls or robocalls | recorded voices |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 2 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | present | some | surveys and scams |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | some | scams |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:ai:018-cars-doctors-translators.lesson:10`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×4. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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